Mental Health Counseling

Dr. Michele A. Reiss specializes in helping clients cope with life-threatening illnesses and helping their families through the grieving process. A highly respected therapist, she counseled Randy and Jai Pausch as Randy was dying of pancreatic cancer. Now Dr. Reiss provides comfort and counsel for listeners who are coping with the challenges of serious illness or grief.

There is no need to meander through life feeling deflated and frustrated at yourself. Not when you can implement such simple daily habits that will have you from zero to hero in 10 easy steps. We’ve abolished the finger-pointing, overwhelming "change everything now" approach. Nobody needs a shouting know-it-all telling you what to do. You’ll learn why it is not your fault your dreams are not a reality yet and how the answer lies in your ancestry and brain’s evolution.

EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing) therapy has been successfully used for the past 30 years for those who have suffered PTSD in the military. Recently, it has been recognized as a useful therapy for other forms of trauma. For the author of this book, it was a lifesaving means of reprocessing painful experiences from her upbringing that continued to affect her life.

Healing Generational Trauma and Overcoming the Legacy of Personality Disorders cuts through the fluff and gets straight to the point: you’re stuck in patterns you didn’t ask for, shaped by pain you didn’t deserve, and it’s time to do something about it. This book is your no-nonsense guide to breaking free from the toxic cycles passed down through generations and reclaiming the emotional freedom you’ve been chasing.

One of the most important relationships we have is with money, yet we are often unaware of what drives our habits and feelings related to it. Money can be a cause of anxiety, shame and conflict in our everyday lives. A complex web of emotional factors, past experiences and personality all determine the money choices you make and how you feel about them. But how can you overcome these emotional hurdles to make better financial choices?

The book features a range of case studies while addressing core issues such as self-harm, hallucinations and the threat of suicide, as well as related topics such as depression and psychosis. Illustrating the psychological roots to eating disorders, it places therapy within hospital, clinical and multi-disciplinary contexts, as well as displaying how psychoanalytic theory can be applied across various settings and in different teams.

Learn from a trauma psychologist the wisdom of real people challenged with the task of overcoming severe adversity. Integrating their insights into a complete picture of the human experience, Ernie L. Vecchio reveals a developmental understanding of how adversity becomes an opportunity for self-correction, growth, and healing More than reducing people to their strengths and weaknesses, Vecchio proposes that every human being is a hopeful expectation for the future. He reminds us that the path forward has always been inward.

Um guia esclarecedor sobre o que esperar da terapia, como encontrar o profissional adequado e as abordagens mais eficazes para tratar depressão, ansiedade, transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo e ataques de pânico. Trauma, tristeza, ansiedade e luto fazem parte da experiência humana, e a missão do psicoterapeuta Joshua Fletcher é mostrar a importância de encontrar um profissional de confiança com quem você possa discutir os aspectos mais difíceis da vida. Numa narrativa divertida e profundamente humana, Fletcher nos convida a entrar na mente de um terapeuta antes, durante e depois de cada sessão.

Written for practitioners as well as everyday people who struggle with emotional issues, Soul Pain Revealed will inform and inspire listeners. Dr. Julie Caton addresses the chasm between the two different landscapes of science and psychology, and faith and spiritual healing. Believing that faith is a valuable healing agent, Dr. Caton uses testimonies, case studies, and her own experiences to highlight this principle. She recognizes that counselors in both the mental health field and the faith-based arena share the same goal: to reduce emotional suffering.

Living in the Middle East for over 20 years has afforded Sarah Mattix a firsthand perspective of the trauma women face in this troubled region. After years of counseling women from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, she has learned to empathize deeply with their tragic plight. This book is a collage of their stories that sheds light not only on their grievous experiences, but also on practical ways of engaging them and helping them toward holistic healing.

В книге вы найдете пошаговый план того, как пережить разрыв отношений и в частности развод; рекомендации на первые 3, 10, 40 и 90 дней после расставания; практические советы о том, как проработать свои чувства; чем лучше заняться, чтобы отвлечься; как коммуницировать с детьми в этот период и как сохранить нормальные отношения с бывшим партнером.

Sophie Seeberg kriegt es hautnah mit, das Leben, denn die Psychologin begutachtet Familien fürs Gericht. Sie erlebt dabei schockierende und traurige, aber auch komische und skurrile Geschichten. Wenn zum Beispiel der Vater nicht zum Termin erscheint, weil er betrunken auf der Straße eingeschlafen ist - neben dem Bollerwagen voller Diebesgut. Oder wenn die Mutter ihren erwachsenen Sohn behandelt, als wäre er ein Kleinkind.

You're about to discover a logical and proven method on how to overcome grief and deal with loss fast. Millions of people suffer with grief and bereavement and ruin their personal life as well as their careers trying to deal with it the best they can. Most people realize that they are still grieving but don't know how to or are unable to overcome it, simply because that person has been such an important and memorable person in their life.

We’ll talk about funny and serious topics such as the fragile male ego, the general differences in what men and women expect in the bedroom, how they compete with each other, how they want to feel, and general communication styles they tend to embrace. Finally, a list of ideas is given with creative dates and gifts, so that you have something to refer to when you’re trying to come up with the next romantic evening.

At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie, is dealing with her own emotional crisis, breathing into a paper bag between patient sessions. In this lively and honest memoir of training to be a psychotherapist, we meet the patients grappling with mental health issues, from OCD and addiction to self-deception and self-harming, and see how Dr Natalie helps them understand and change these attempts to self-soothe.

Millions of people in our society suffer from anxiety, often unbeknownst to those around them. The pressures of modern life seem specially designed to cause anxiety, and anxiety is on the rise in recent years. The good news is that anxiety is very treatable. Pastor Jason Cusick tells the story of his own history with anxiety and offers expertise, practical guidance, and empathy. Filled with practical advice and the hope of Christ, The Anxiety Field Guide is a rich resource for both those who suffer from anxiety and those in a position to help them.

Вместо того, чтобы учить родителей как нужно воспитывать своих детей, корейский психолог Сона Ли (или как она сама себя называет "доктор Ладно") рассказывает, что нужно для того, чтобы помочь нашим детям стать взрослыми. И как воспитать родителя в себе. Эта книга, построенная в виде диалога, поможет взрослым по-настоящему насладиться счастьем общения со своим ребенком и стать более уверенным в себе родителем.

The Therapist by Kathlyn C. White, marriage and family therapist, is a nonfiction account of the life of a therapist and the many interesting people she has seen over the years.

In this landmark book, Brazilian psychoanalyst, Norberto Keppe, offers a scientific study of the link between possession and psychopathology. Keppe's contention is that the disastrous idea perpetuated in both medicine and religion that strange manifestations in the human being are completely physical, and only occasionally spiritual is allowing malignant spirits free rein in their spurious influence over human beings. Keppe's innovative therapeutic perspective is that this mistake must be corrected for humankind to have any chance of returning to a normal peaceful and abundant life.

The implications of Erickson's approaches to hypnotherapy and psychotherapy are vast. This concise audiobook presents the four major developments that emanated from his work. It is through understanding these views that you may discover ways to further implement his ideas and techniques in your practice. Milton H. Erickson, MD was an American psychiatrist who pioneered several indirect or permissive hypnosis techniques. He also developed several naturalistic techniques using metaphors and stories.